Market Watch: Barcelona’s Boqueria

After France, I returned to Barcelona for a few days of exploration and rest. Travelling non-stop almost every day does get tiresome sometimes. Actually, most of the time. Yeah, I’m going to vineyards in the South of Europe, but still, it does wear one down. So staying put for more than 3 days was a real treat. And, I got to visit some beautiful sites in a city I didn’t know well at all, including the world-famous Boqueria Market. So, without further annoying interference from moi, here are a few pics for your perusal.

It isn’t every day that you stumble upon great tasting, well-made, clean and stable natural wines. In fact – and I’ll be castigated for saying this – a large amount of these wines is pretty poorly made. Worse, too much bad natural wine is bring imported for the sake of being natural and not necessarily quality. […]

Let’s face it, Bordeaux has been boring for a long time. The region is known for high-end, high-quality, high-cost wines that only the 1% can afford. The other wines? Well, there’s a flood of innocuous to downright nasty stuff being made by thousands of small domaines, all struggling since most of what they make stinks. […]

If you can’t tell, I really like Beaujolais, or at least Gamay, the main red grape of the region (but grown elsewhere, as is evident with Olivier Bellanger’s gorgeously mineral Gamay from the Loire). There’s nothing like having something that tastes like it should be a simple easy going red actually turn out to be […]

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